Hypertension (high blood pressure) increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality. Learn how damage from ...

New data identifies two key risk factors for high-altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of death on the mountain.

Back in 2021, I wrote about the case of Daniel Granberg, a 24-year-old from Colorado who died at the summit of a Bolivian mountain called Illimani of what turned out to be high-altitude pulmonary ...

Implementing the ventilator-associated events (VAE) prevention protocol at Community Health Network has yielded remarkable ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Scientists have discovered how long-term treatment of high blood pressure with ... This difference becomes clear in pulmonary hypertension, in which only the lungs' blood vessels ...

Data show people with pulmonary arterial hypertension tend to stay in the hospital longer and have higher medical bills.

An article in Outside magazine about high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) mentioned a new study in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine by emergency medicine physicians from the University of Vermont ...

Research into the “gut–lung” axis links gut microbiota to pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH ... 1 PAH carries a poor prognosis and high mortality rate, with newly diagnosed patients facing a median ...

Reuters Health Information, March 11, 2025 BP Patterns and Adverse Outcomes in Gestational Hypertension An increasing diastolic blood pressure pattern is associated with an elevated risk for ...